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TIL of Wakaliwood, the Ugawood studio that made the 85$ Tarantinoesque hit YouTube film ‘Who Killed Captaiin Alex?’

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Ooy6a TIL In North Korea western films are only available at private showings to high-ranking Party members, although the 1997 film Titanic is frequently shown to university students as an example of Western culture
yw5J TIL Ophiocordyceps unilateralis has been known to destroy entire ant colonies. In response, ants have evolved the ability to sense that a member of the colony is infected; healthy ants will carry the dying one far away from the colony in order to avoid fungal spore exposure.
Y7MQW TIL that “under the weather,” meaning, feeling ill, is from sailors. On the high seas when the wind blow hard and rough water crewmen would go below deck and down to their cabins in order to ride out the storm to avoid seasickness. They literally retreat to a location “under the weather"
BQXW TIL pro poker player Tom Dwan started playing online poker with the $50 his dad gave him for his birthday and earned over $5,000,000 by the next 3 4 years.
65WZ TIL The term “surfing the Internet” was created in 1992 by author Jean Armour Polly. She came up with the term because her mouse pad had a picture of a surfer on it.